iPads and Digital Readers

Facilitated by Vi Richter, Tom Seidenberg, and Lundy Smith

This workshop will be a hands-on workshop where participants will use iPads and other digital readers. Participants will learn about some features of the iPad and there will be time for participants to discuss possible uses of the iPad in the classroom. Teachers will participate in a Harkness discussion based on a text where they will use only the iPad as the digital reader. The class will discuss how this felt compared to using a paper text.

• What’s an iPad?
• How do you use it? (see user guide link below)
• What are "apps" and how do you get them?
• What “reader” apps are available for the iPad? (install Nook/Kindle/iBooks
• Hamlet)
• What is a digital reader? A Nook? A Kindle? A _? What different formats of digital texts are out there?
• Once I have a digital text what can I do with it? Annotate? Highlight? Markup?
• What's it like to read from a digital reader? (Hamlet)
• What devices can I use to read specific file formats? See this graphic for details.
• Are ebooks free or will they cost money?
• How/where do I get books? Trade books? Textbooks? Periodicals (Flipbook)
• What are other schools doing?
• Tips for using digital books

Resources:
iPad User Guide
eBook prices fuel outrage--and innovation
10 tips for iPad
Free ebook collections

Reading a Text Digitally in Class:
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/BL_Q1_Ham/13/?zoom=5

http://www.quartos.org/